Re: "out of memory or dimension too large for Octave's index type"

[Francesco Potortì]

mmuetzel:
>If you know the size of the matrices you need already at the start of
>your program, you could try and "reserve" a continuous memory block for
>it. You might be able to do something like:
>
>function A = fragments_memory ()
>A = zeros(5184,3904, typename);
>
>... (the lines that fragment your memory)
>
>A(:,:) = what_it_should_be;
>
>endfunction

Oh, right, I had taken that for granted, while I shouldn't have. What
Marku sugegsts is (probably the most useful of) a series of optimization
techniqus to care for when you program in Octave using not-so-small
data.

Have a look at chapter "Vectorization and Faster Code Execution" in the
Octave manual for more ideas.

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